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Sherpur Badr leader sent to jail
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 yesterday sent Aminuzzaman Faruk, alleged leader of 1971 Al-Badr Bahini from Sherpur, to jail as police produced the accused before the court.
Justice Anwarul Haque, chairman of the three-member panel of the ICT-1, set October 31 for passing further order in the case.
Faruk, 58, a teacher of Nakla Haji Jalmamud College, was arrested on Monday from his home within hours of issuing arrest warrant by the ICT-1.
Confirming the news to BSS, prosecutor Rezia Sultana Chemon said Faruk was behind many crimes against humanity in his locality and the investigation agency of ICT so far has found his involvement with two murders in 1971.
Female student drowns
A female student drowned in a pond at Molla Para village in Barisal of the district on Tuesday.
The deceased was identified as Mala Akhtar,10, daughter of Shah Alam Hawlader a resident of Ratnapur union in Agailiharar upazila. Family and hospital sources said Mala drowned in the pond while she was playing near the pond.
Family members and locals rescued Mala from the pond and sent her to Upazila Health Complex where on-duty doctors declared her dead.
Arms peddler arrested with revolver, bullets
The members of law enforcement agencies arrested an arms peddler with firearms and bullets from South Pirerbag Vanga Bridge under Mirpur police station, said a press release yesterday.
The members of DBs Serious Crime Investigation Robbery Prevention unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Tuesday arrested Mohammad Abul Hasem alias Hasu, 33, with a foreign revolver, a single-barrel wooden gun, six bullets and three cartridges yesterday, said a DMP release.
During the preliminary interrogation Hasu confessed his involvement in arms peddling, the release added. A case has been filed with Mirpur police station in this connection.
Woman gets life for drug smuggling
A court in Rajshahi on Tuesday convicted a woman and sentenced her to life-term imprisonment for possessing heroin in the district more than four years back.
Additional District and Session Judge-2 Khandaker Haider Ali pronounced the verdict.
The convict was Tagori Khatun, 40, wife of Omar Ali of Bakchar village in Chapainawabganj district. She was also fined Taka 3,000 in default to suffer three months more behind the bar.
According to the prosecution story, in brief, is that a BGB patrol party conducted a raid in Hatpara Ghat area under Godagari Upazila and arrested Tagori Khatun with 1.50 kilograms of heroin red-handed on July 19 in 2012. Subsequently, a case was lodged with the police station. After examining recorded depositions of prosecution witnesses and other relevant evidences, the court handed down the aforesaid verdict this afternoon.
Ex-kanungo arrested
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday arrested a former kanungo of the deputy commissioner office of Gopalganj from Faridpur town in a graft case, reports UNB.
ACC assistant director Md Hafizul Islam of its Faridpur zila office arrested kanungo of LA branch Ramesh Chandra Paul, ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told UNB.
On August 24, 2014, the national anti-graft agency filed a case against him with Gopalganj Police Station for allegedly plundering Tk 2.31 crore from the deputy commissioner office of Gopalganj.
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